Currency board

A currency board is a system by which a currency is convertible at a fixed exchange rate with another currency.

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This can mean that the currency is fully backed by a hard currency.

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When a currency board makes a currency convertible at a fixed exchange rate to some weight of gold then the system is referred to as a gold standard.

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